Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Emily Langer, Jean Daniel, preeminent French journalist and intellectual, dies at 99. Washington Post, Feb. 22, 2020 See also Bernard-Henri Lévy’s memoir and obituary at Tablet Magazine Jean Daniel, a leading intellectual of the French left whose cameos in history included a trip to Cuba in 1963, where he extended to Fidel Castro a tentative …

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Evans, B., Johnson, H. Responding to the problem of ‘food security’ in animal cruelty policy debates: building alliances between animal-centred and human-centred work on food system issues (2020) Agriculture and Human Values, 37 (1), pp. 161-174. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-09979-2 Abstract Research on ethical issues within food systems is often human-centric. As a consequence, animal-centric policy debates …

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Foucault. Repenser les rapports entre les Grecs et les Modernes Sous la direction de : Hans-Jurgen Lüsebrink, Jean-Marc Narbonne, Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen, Presse de l’Université LavalPresses de l’Université Laval, Collection: Zêtêsis, à paraître Foucault aurait-il choisi de se retirer de l’arène politique contemporaine pour se refugier dans « la posture antique du sage » ? Pourquoi, …

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Schubert, Karsten (2019): The Democratic Biopolitics of PrEP. In: Helene Gerhards und Kathrin Braun (ed.): Biopolitiken – Regierungen des Lebens heute. Wiesbaden: Springer, 121–153 doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-25769-9_5. Abstract PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a relatively new drug-based HIV prevention technique and an important means to lower the HIV risk of gay men who are especially vulnerable to …

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Après «Les Aveux de la chair» Généalogie du sujet chez Michel Foucault, Epel, Mars 2020 Ouvrage dirigé par Sandra Boehringer et Laurie Laufer Attraper erôs dans le filet du logos, l’Occident n’a pas attendu la psychanalyse pour s’y employer. Entre les aphrodisia grecs et le dispositif de sexualité moderne, il ne restait plus à Foucault …

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Foucault fiches de lecture Editor: I posted an earlier notice about this project in 2018. Considerable progress has been made since then and material is now available online. This website open to all Internet users and hosts digital versions of Foucault’s reading notes (from the Foucault archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France). One is …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Signés Foucault & cie, edited by Philippe Artières, Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020 I’d missed news of this until I saw a copy at the BnF bookshop. It’s a little and cheap €5 collection of manifestos and open letters signed by Foucault and others. Very few of these were included…

Kevin Maynard, Foucault on the Wards. Rediscovering Reflection as a Social Pediatrician in Training, Academic Medicine: October 15, 2019 DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003042 Open access Abstract The author states that as a second-year medical student with a liberal arts degree, it is often difficult for him to reconcile his former education with the current demands of his …

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İbrahimhakkıoğlu, F. A Feminist Genealogy of the Lived Body? Rethinking the Gendered Body as a Site of Excess and Indeterminacy (2019) Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 50 (4), pp. 324-336. DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2019.1610830 Abstract This essay offers a rethinking of the gendered body as both lived and historically constituted. These two dimensions are sometimes …

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